USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
NBMG Sample Site 2959
Mindat Confirmed Gold Underground 2 mapped shafts 7 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Minor copper mineralization; 50-ft shaft on top of hill was sunk on a 2-3 ft quartz vein. Deposit type: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein Development: Old workings; no activity at time of examination.
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— documented in 2 source records,
noting 50 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 7 adit symbols
- Shaft : Battle Creek Ranch , 1972
- Adit : Battle Creek Ranch , 1972
- Adit : Battle Creek Ranch , 1972
View individual source records (7)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
· depth 50 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Deposit: Minor copper mineralization; 50-ft shaft on top of hill was sunk on a 2-3 ft quartz vein. Deposit type: Low-sulfide Au-quart…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: op of hill was sunk on a 2-3 ft quartz vein. Deposit type: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein Development: Old workings; no activity at time of examination.
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Gold
- Aplite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Granite
- Native Gold
- Quartz
View all 9 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Gold
- Aplite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Granite
- Native Gold
- Quartz
- Sandstone
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (2)
- mapped adit symbols (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 430000
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
- underground workings
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